Yilan Animal Spirit Monument

Erected in November 1931 by operators of the local slaughter industry at the former Yilan Slaughterhouse (宜蘭屠宰場), now the site of the Yilan County Social Welfare Center (宜蘭縣社會福利館). The sandstone stele is unusual for bearing a full inscription on its reverse face, where most surviving examples carry only the main inscription and sometimes a date. The front calligraphy is credited to Taipei Prefecture Governor Hirayama Yasushi (平山泰), while the back text was composed by sanitation officer Miyagawa Fujimatsu (宮川富士松) and written by Lin Chunzhi (林春枝). After the monument was dismantled it was transferred into the collection of the Lanyang Museum, where it now resides in storage and is not on public display.